Hawaiian Historical Legends, The First Constitution, sentence 87
It is worthy of notice that the fourth act of these early laws practically recognised the New England system of “local” or “town” government.
Who acts: treatment, notice, early laws · What happens: be, recognise, act · To what, where: England system
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The First Constitution. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (treatment, notice, early laws), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 worthy | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 worthy | cop |
| 3 | worthy | worthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 notice | case |
| 5 | notice | notice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 worthy | obl |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 recognised | nsubj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 act | det |
| 8 | fourth | fourth | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 act | amod |
| 9 | act | act | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 recognised | nsubj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 laws | case |
| 11 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 13 laws | det |
| 12 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 laws | amod |
| 13 | laws | law | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 act | nmod |
| 14 | practically | practically | ADV | _ | 15 recognised | advmod |
| 15 | recognised | recognise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 notice | acl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 system | det |
| 17 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 England | flat |
| 18 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 system | compound |
| 19 | system | system | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 recognised | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 local | case |
| 21 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 local | punct |
| 22 | local | local | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 system | nmod |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 local | punct |
| 24 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 26 town | cc |
| 25 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 town | punct |
| 26 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 local | conj |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 town | punct |
| 28 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 town | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 worthy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | treatment | of notice; worthy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | recognise | past | notice | the England system of local or town and government | the fourth act of this early laws nsubj; practically property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer system=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | act | this early laws | nom act «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Project Gutenberg book 66357 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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